William E. Starke

William Edwin Starke (1814-17 September 1862) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
William Edwin Starke was born in Brunswick County, Virginia in 1814, the brother of general Peter Burwell Starke. He worked in the family's stagecoach business and became a cotton broker in Mobile, Alabama and New Orleans, Louisiana, and he decided to volunteer in the Confederate States Army at the start of the American Civil War in 1861. He became a colonel of an infantry regiment in the Army of Northern Virginia, and he served on Robert E. Lee's staff in late 1861. In 1862, he fought in the Peninsula Campaign, the Seven Days' Battles, and the Second Battle of Bull Run.. On 17 September 1862, Starke was shot three times at the Battle of Antietam, one of six Confederate generals to be killed in the battle.